(Note: Since writing the essays below, I’ve left the academy and now work as a software engineer. Nevertheless, I’m keeping these around for posterity.)
Wheaton College Graduate School (2017 - )
(Here’s the elevator pitch for my dissertation proposal: “Scriptural, But Not Religious: Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and a Biblical Critique of Religion.”)
- The Guilt of Karl Barth: Strengths and Weaknesses of Barth’s Römerbrief Reading of Romans 9:30–10:21
- The Tree of Religion: Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Tree of Knowledge in Genesis 2:4–3:24
- When will Thy Kingdom Come? The Timing and Agency of the Kingdom of God in the Lord’s Prayer
- Theological Hermeneutics Essay: The Hermeneutical Implications of Scripture’s Theological Location
Beeson Divinity School (2013-2016)
- To Be or Not To Be Religious: A Clarification of Karl Barth’s and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Divergence and Convergence Regarding Religion
- A Crucicentric Credo
- What Does It Mean To Be Human? Divided Desires? Or Divine Discourse?
- Disunity as Ecclesiological Impossibility: A Barthian Analogy
- Dogmatic Essay on Scripture
Cedarville University (2009-2013)
- Reconciliation and the Lack Thereof: Atonement, Ecclesiology, and the Unity of God
- Creation and Doxology: A Portrait of Biblical Creation Theology
- Exposition Paper: Deuteronomy 6:1-15
- Yahweh’s Rîb Against Israel: Gerichtsrede and the Message of Micah
- Exposition Paper: Micah 6:1-16
- Romans 13:1-7 - A Contextually-Appropriate Reading
- The Argument/Story of Romans
- Exegetical Paper: Hebrews 10:19-25